Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Oct 1998 16:44:39 +0100 | From | Thomas Wouters <> | Subject | Re: Accessing file > 2GB? |
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On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 07:53:30AM -0700, Gary L. Hennigan wrote:
> A fellow Debian user managed to create a tar.gz file that is 2.6GB in > size on a FAT32 partition. Of course now he can't get anything to read > the thing to extract some data from it. Is there any solution for this > problem?
> He's got the debian-user list stumped and I thought there might be > more hope for help from the Kernel gurus here. > He's tried all the possible combinations, e.g., > tar xzvf file.tgz > gunzip -c file.tgz|tar xf - > cat file.tgz|gunzip -c|tar xf -
Boot Windows, use winzip (if it can handle a file that large) or Cygwin32 (www.cygnus.com) and its tar/gzip for windows. (Not sure if there's any others.) It's probably the safest way to get the whole file.
Regards, Thomas.
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